Robert Lustig is a paediatric endocrinologist at the University of California who specialises in the treatment of childhood obesity. A 90-minute talk he gave in 2009, titled Sugar: The Bitter Truth, has now been viewed more than six million times...

JOHN HAMMOND WAS a boy of ten when he fell in love with the new music called jazz. Rather than heading home after school to his family’s mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he would jump on an uptown bus and deposit himself, 30 blocks...

The arrival of Facebook and Twitter appeared to threaten the advertising industry’s very existence. So what happened next? Even admen have souls, and some of them are enduring dark nights. Jeff Goodby is co-chairman of Goodby, Silverstein &amp...

About Me

Ian Leslie is an author and speaker who lives in London, where he combines careers in writing and advertising. His book Born Liars was hailed as "consistently startling and fascinating" by the Daily Mail and was BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week'. He writes about ideas, culture and politics for a range of publications in the UK and US.